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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:30:55 -0500
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Make 3.81 uploaded
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Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:
> 
> This is a port of GNU Make 3.81 to MSDOS/DJGPP.
> 
... snip ...
> 
> After inspecting the bug mailing list of GNU make I found a patch
> proposed by Eli Zaretskii some years ago that tried to address
> those issues.  It can be inspected at:
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2005-02/msg00022.html>
... snip ...

IIRC DJGPP Make used to be heavily patched to include the required
features from bash.  This allowed it to run under COMMAND or 4DOS
without special treatment.

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